| Lytoceras batesi Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shells of Lytoceras batesi from Shasta County, California, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Lytoceras |
| Species: | †L. batesi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lytoceras batesi Whiteaves, 1884 | |
Lytoceras batesi is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period.
References
- Discover Yale Digital Content
- YPM Invertebrate Paleontology - Online Catalog
- Timothy William Stanton Contributions to the Cretaceous Paleontology of the Pacific Coast, pg. 75
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